Re: libepoll-shim breaks evdev input

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:50 PM Niclas Zeising <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 12/30/18 7:01 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 6:12 PM Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 12:15 PM Niclas Zeising
> >     <[email protected] <mailto:zeising%[email protected]>>
> >     wrote:
> >
> >         On 12/29/18 11:33 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >          >
> >          >
> >          > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:17 PM Niclas Zeising
> >          > <[email protected]
> >         <mailto:zeising%[email protected]>
> >         <mailto:zeising%[email protected]
> >         <mailto:zeising%[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >          >
> >          >     On 12/29/18 11:06 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >          >      >
> >          >      >
> >          >      > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:19 PM Niclas Zeising
> >          >      > <[email protected]
> >         <mailto:zeising%[email protected]>
> >          >     <mailto:zeising%[email protected]
> >         <mailto:zeising%[email protected]>>
> >          >     <mailto:zeising%[email protected]
> >         <mailto:zeising%[email protected]>
> >          >     <mailto:zeising%[email protected]
> >         <mailto:zeising%[email protected]>>>> wrote:
> >          >      >
> >          >      >     On 12/28/18 3:10 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >          >      >      > Hello,
> >          >      >      >
> >          >      >      > On both my laptop and workstation running
> >         FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT
> >          >      >      > 0b666203a28(master) the upgrade of
> libepoll-shim:
> >          >     0.0.20161220_1 ->
> >          >      >      > 0.0.20180530 breaks evdev input.
> >          >      >      >
> >          >      >      > I have xorg-server port make patched to use the
> >         udev
> >          >     backend, but
> >          >      >     with new
> >          >      >      > epoll-shim those device entries does not turn
> >         up in /dev/input
> >          >      >      >
> >          >      >      > If I run xorg-server from ports with
> >          >     libepoll-shim-0.0.20180530 input
> >          >      >      > works, but only old style kbdmux and sysmouse.
> >          >      >      >
> >          >      >      > Has something changed on how to get evdev input
> >         running?
> >          >      >      >
> >          >      >
> >          >      >     Hi!
> >          >      >     I just updated the libepoll-shim port, can you
> >         test the
> >          >     updated version?
> >          >      >     Thanks!
> >          >      >     Regards
> >          >      >     --
> >          >      >     Niclas
> >          >      >
> >          >      >
> >          >      > Hello!
> >          >      >
> >          >      > libepoll-shim-0.0.20181229 works! Great work, thank
> you!
> >          >      >
> >          >
> >          >     Glad it works!
> >          >     Sorry for the initial breakage.
> >          >     Regards!
> >          >     --
> >          >     Niclas
> >          >
> >          >
> >          > Thanks for the rapid fix of the problem! Now I just need to
> >         find why my
> >          > touchpad is recognized as
> >          > config/udev: Adding input device Generic PS/2 mouse
> >         (/dev/input/event3)
> >          > On a identical device running opensuse it is identified as
> >          > config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
> >          >
> >          > But that is another thread I think.
> >
> >         You can try setting
> >         hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
> >         in /boot/loader.conf and reboot the system, and see if the
> >         touchpad is
> >         detected as a synaptics.
> >         Regards
> >         --
> >         Niclas
> >
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     It does indeed get listed as SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad after
> >     setting that loader tunable. I thouht those
> >     hw.psm.(synaptics|elantech)_support was just for basic touchpad
> >     stuff for sysmouse.
> >
> >     However xorg still wont play: synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad:
> >     Synaptics driver unable to detect protocol.
> >
> >     Thanks for helping me getting this far!
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     Andreas
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, there is a very very annoying thing that happens when setting
> > either hw.psm.(synaptics|trackpoint)_support=1 which is that
> > periodically, as in several times a minute, X freezes for a few seconds
> > which is very hard to work with. It happend even before trying out the
> > evdev stuff.
> >
>
> I have never noticed this issue myself.  Is anything reported in any logs?
> Regards
> --
> Niclas
>

No, I've never seen anything in Xorg.0.log or /var/log/messages . I think
actually happened on my my old thinkpad t510 as well as on this thinkpad x1
yoga.

Thanks for all the help so far!

Best regards
Andreas
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